SaneReminders notifies you when an email you sent wasn’t responded to by a certain time. It’s also an easy way to send your future self a reminder.
There are 2 different use cases for it:
- You send an email and need to make sure you get a reply to (this is how most people use it). Say you want to follow up on a lead in a week, but only if you don’t hear back.
- You want to defer processing an email, and want it put back into your Inbox by a certain time. This is great if you don’t want to forget about an emailed coupon before it expires, or if you don’t want to forget about happy hour on Friday, but people in your group may respond to the email in the meantime.
After you create your first reminder, we will create a new folder called @SaneReminders. This will hold a copy of the emails that you have requested a reminder for. It is used to resend your email back to you and to allow users to see what reminders they have waiting for them.
- Please don’t delete emails in the folder that you have an active SaneReminders for. If you do, we will only be able to send you a generic reminder instead of resending the actual email back to your Inbox. Like all Sane folders, you are welcome to rename @SaneReminders to be anything you want.
How to set reminders:
If you want to confirm a reply, put a reminder email address (which are discussed below) in the To: or CC: or BCC: field. SaneBox will track this email and put it back into the top of your Inbox at the time indicated, unless the email has been replied to.
If you are looking for the email to come back into your Inbox, you put the reminder email address in the To: field or simply Forward it to the reminder email address.
For example: Send an email To: [email protected], and your email will be sent back to you in 24 hours.
Or, send an email To: [email protected] and BCC: [email protected], and if the milk man doesn’t reply by Monday at 10am, we will put that email back into your Inbox, so you can resend it and make sure you get your milk. To resend the email, simply click “reply” and remove the SaneReminders stuff at the top of the email. If you want us to remind you a 2nd time, you will need to add the BCC with a SaneReminder Address,
